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Italian
Etymology
From periglio, from Old Occitan perilh, from Latin perīculum. By surface analysis, periglio (“danger”) + -oso (“-ous”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.riʎˈʎo.zo/, (traditional) /pe.riʎˈʎo.so/
- Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
- Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧glió‧so
Adjective
periglioso (feminine perigliosa, masculine plural perigliosi, feminine plural perigliose)
- (literary, archaic) Alternative form of pericoloso (“dangerous”)
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 22–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:E come quei che con lena affannata, / uscito fuor del pelago a la riva, / si volge a l’acqua perigliosa e guata, […]- And as one who, with gaspy breath, having come out of the sea upon the shore, turns to the dangerous water and gazes,
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